I often talk to patients in support groups who are worried and complaining that doing the slightest activities causes shortness of breath (SOB). They become hypervigilant over their oxygen saturation and to avoid the slightest feelings of SOB they become more and more sedentary. That’s the exact opposite of what can help them.

I’ve seen many

🫁 Holding Your Ground: Entropy, Aging, and Lung Health

There’s a simple principle from physics that quietly shapes our daily lives:

👉 Left on its own, everything drifts toward breakdown.

Scientists call this Entropy—the natural tendency for systems to lose order and for energy to spread out.

That may sound abstract—but for those of us aging, and

Lung Health Newsletter March, 2026

A monthly collection of research, patient wisdom, and lived experience from people navigating life with lung disease. Pulmonary Success Circles

Topics:

1. +Myths vs Facts of supplemental oxygen portable concentrators and tanks

2. +The health benefits of a rebounder or vibration plate.

3. +Stopping a negative thought loop

The January 2026 Lung, Heart & Brain Health Newsletter

A monthly collection of research, patient wisdom, and lived experience from people navigating life with lung disease.

This month’s topics:

1. 1)Muscle movement and the aging brain article

2. 2)Burping your home before bedtime for lung health?

3. 2)When to take supplements and vitamins that should be taken

A monthly collection of research, patient wisdom, and real-world experience from people living with lung diseases

In This Issue

• •Improving blood pressure, cardiovascular function, and oxygenation: Two inexpensive supplements that have helped me.

• •The centuries-old mushroom used to support lung health.

• •Pushing Past Comfortable: How short bursts of

The lung, heart and brain Health Newsletter

A collection of research, experience, wisdom and tips from hundreds of people living with lung disease. Curated from the weekly patient support groups of Pulmonary Success Circles. 

In this issue:  

1.    Preventing sarcopenia (muscle wasting) and retaining healthy functional muscle. 

2.    Leg Swelling,



October 6 Pulmonary Success Circles  Lung Health Newsletter

Topics:

1.   Walking challenge

2.   Exercises for healthy aging

3.   Mullein Leaf for Lung cleansing

Purpose: 

There is a concept called tribal wisdom or institutional knowledge. It refers to the collective, time-tested knowledge, experience, practices, and insights of communities and groups.

What Really Happens to Your Body After Just a Few Days of Being Sedentary

Diagnosed with an advanced stage of lung disease in 2020, I was faced with a life expectancy of 2-3 remaining years. It’s now been 5 years, I am 67 and I am still going strong, still living an active life, even though I wear an oxygen tank in a backpack using supplemental

I’ve had a good life. My parents stressed to me the importance of helping others daily. My career was highly successful, financially, spiritually, socially and in many other ways, and one of the reasons for success I believe was choosing to always be looking out for other people.

Finding ways to help clients, finding ways to help my boss, finding

As a person still thriving while living with a lung disease after being diagnosed 5 years ago with end-stage pulmonary fibrosis and sent home to prepare to die, I now lead patient support groups and wrote a book on the simple life changes I made to recover and live an active life in spite of lung disease. My YouTube channel connects me with

🕊️ 15 Teachings of Jesus That Align with Non-Duality

By Lee Fogle – Life and Breath

I have had Christian friends who objected to my beliefs and discussion on non-duality and meditation practices. They were so steeped in their traditional thinking that they seemed to lack the ability to look more deeply at the words of Jesus and at the relationship

“Sinking in bed syndrome”…in the last 15 months 5 friends & fellow lung disease patients have experienced the following decline spiral that ended in their physical death. The steps were:

1. Increasing SEDENTARY lifestyle after lung disease diagnosis

2. Because of this inactivity they became physically weaker which led to poor SHALLOW breathing and

As a person still thriving while living with a lung disease after being diagnosed 5 years ago with end-stage pulmonary fibrosis and sent home to prepare to die, I now lead patient support groups and wrote a book on the simple life changes I made to recover and live an active life in spite of lung disease. My YouTube channel connects me with